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We’ve got an exciting last-minute addition to the LGC schedule: Xbox Live. Microsoft’s Robin Burrowes has signed up to host a special address at the event looking at how the 360’s online games service has in fact benefitted other mediums. While LGC looks at how online business models have transformed …
Read More »Profits up as Deus Ex: Human Revolution shifts 2.18m copies
Since its release on September 30th, Square Enix title Deus Ex: Human Revolution has sold 2.18m copies around the world. 1.38m of those units were snapped up in Europe and 800k in North America. The numbers come as Square Enix announced a 115 per cent rise in net profit to …
Read More »Zynga revenues fly, but costs pull profits
Social games titan absorbs huge chunk of expenses before going public
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE: Digital to dominate by 2015
Digital sales will overtake boxed product sales by 2015, according to new industry-wide survey. The conclusion came form a panel of 1,000 industry experts quizzed by London Games Conference. 16 per cent believe that sea change could occur as early as the next 12 months. 39 per cent predict it …
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LGC: Digital to surpass discs by 2015
Over half of games professionals polled predict sea-change within four years
Read More »Social revenues triple for Konami
But consumer sales down 36 per cent to $218 million
Read More »Wii cut to £89 as festive price wars gain traction
The Nintendo Wii has fallen to its lowest price ever on the UK High Street. Supermarcket chain Asda is advertising a 89 price point for the console in today’s papers. The SKU on offer includes a white version of the machine and two games – Wii Sports and Wii Party. …
Read More »Armed robbers steal Modern Warfare 3 shipment
Up to 6,000 copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 were reportedly stolen by French thieves in the early hours of yesterday morning. Eurogamer reports that a car crashed into a van carrying around €400,000 worth of video games at 8:00am on Sunday morning. Upon exiting the van, the …
Read More »Watch tonight’s Modern Warfare 3 launch LIVE on MCVuk.com
As has become tradition, Activision is tonight hosting a huge launch event for the most anticipated game of the year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. And if you’re not lucky enough to have a ticket yourself, you can watch the whole thing right here on this page on MCVuk.com. …
Read More »Game over for LEGO Universe
A little over a year after launching, LEGO has announced its attention to close its free-to-play MMO title LEGO Universe in January. The decision has lead to the closure of two of the firm’s studios; Play Well in the US and a second facility in Denmark. As many as 115 …
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